Remember slot cars? – LA Daily News

Slot cars ready to race on Stephen Farr’s track in Glendale. The FarrOut Slot Car Club brings slot car fans together for regular group races.

Photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News.

By Dana Bartholomew, Staff Writer

Posted: 05/28/2010

GLENDALE — It was a 24-hour “battle of the titans” as Porsche howled past Ferrari in a 1970 Le Mans race immortalized by Steve McQueen in film the next year.Now the auto-racing legends are back. Only instead of ripping ’round the famous French circuit, they are slot cars hurtling around an electric track.

And in the lead of the miniature slot-car comeback are baby boomers from the San Fernando Valley, who will re-create the historic Le Mans race this summer in what’s billed as the biggest slot-car event in the West.

“We’re having a freaking great time,” said Stephen Farr-Jones, 45, founder of the FarrOut Slot Car Club, co-host of the July 24 race at the Petersen Automotive Museum. “I never stopped being a kid.